Nicholas Becker Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Brea, CA

Brea, CA

Brea, CA

Brea, CA

Brea, CA

• Lead consolidated P&L and Balance Sheet reporting, planning and forecasting processes, and analysis for the supply chain organization including: inventory, transportation, distribution site operations, and productivity.
• Highlight trends, and risks and opportunities identified via analysis of key supply chain financial and operational data and through cross functional communication with the supply chain team.
• Develop new templates for inventory and transportation planning, forecasting and reporting to allow for more accurate tracking, analysis and variance reporting at the plant, customer and distribution lane level.
• Lead Finance representative for New Business Initiatives including developing flexible cost models, completing margin analysis, and optimizing the supply chain network. In addition to providing input from a financial.
• Support the implementation of new financial systems including creation of P&L, Balance Sheet, Inventory and KPM reports. Create and implement site specific financial reports and shared unit allocation processes and.
• Initiate continuous improvement projects within finance and supply chain to improve the accuracy, efficiency, transparency and cross functional alignment of finance reported metrics and results.

• Provide monthly analysis and reporting of contract bookings actuals and forecast for the Space and Airborne Systems Business with a total value of over $5 Billion annually.
• Support monthly Corporate Operations reviews and Quarterly Corporate earnings reviews for bookings and backlog.
• Analyze and provide New Business Investment (NBI) guidance to leadership and Corporate Finance.
• Analyze and prepare monthly Strategy and Business Development Budget and Headcount summaries and support the preparation of the annual NBI budget.
• Support bookings reporting for the Five Year Finance Plan as well as the Annual Operating Plan.
• Lead cross functional Six Sigma projects related to improvement of FP&A processes, systems and tools.

• Manage weekly Earned Value reporting on multiple contracts
• Coordinate quarterly Estimate at Completion processes and support modifications at multiple levels of management reviews through to final approval
• Forecast and analyze program cash receipts and disbursements, identify variances from planned cash flow and make recommendations to program management of possible solutions
• Coordinate invoice process and support weekly telecoms’ with customer to resolve invoice issues
• Lead the development of improvements for the Program Finance Team through identifying gaps and shortfalls of current reporting processes and procedures, streamlining and automating processes through utilization of.

• Led annual budget planning for direct and burden accounts
• Automated month end reporting processes to reduce cycle time from 2 days to 4 hours
• Led the development and execution of a more coordinated and transparent year-end closeout process
• Developed and implemented improvements to address the inefficient support and distribution model for delivery of lab gases, resulted in annual cost reductions of over $500K
• Completed an impact analysis and reported to the institutional research committee, addressing a 3 fold increase in the cost of Liquid Helium and its impact to researchers’ ability to perform to currently approved.
• Created new processes and procedures to address an inadequate physical inventory process. Led a team of 8 people in execution of the new processes, resulted in identifying 3x more gases on site than expected

Mba

Bs, Business Management And Human Resources